24 bit tracking, 16 bit mixing

[andyhix]

Trying to sort out our plan of attack to record some material in the near future. We will have a firepod (24 bit, right?) to do the tracking at our bassist's house, but at my house, all I'll have to monitor during mixing is a USB M-Audio MobilePre (which is a 16 bit interface). Is this a bad idea? Will it work?

I'm completely new to computer recording, so I don't really have my head wrapped around the whole concept yet...

 

[TelePaul]

will you be recording in both? or whats your plan, record at bassists and mix at your place?

 

[andyhix]

whats your plan, record at bassists and mix at your place?

Yes, that's the plan, tentatively. I think I'm more likely to get the mixing work done in my spare time, than he. Probably not much, if any, tracking will be done at my place.

 

[NYMorningstar]

If you are tracking in 24 bit, keep it in 24 bit until your final master.

 

[Farview]

You can monitor in 16 bit all you want, you just want to track in 24 bit.

Listening through a 16 bit interface shouldn't change the audio in the computer.

 

[andyhix]

You can monitor in 16 bit all you want, you just want to track in 24 bit.

Listening through a 16 bit interface shouldn't change the audio in the computer.

Cool. That's what I was thinking/hoping.